Hanger for electric wires



(No Model.)

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HANGER FOR ELECTRIC WIRES.

No. 473,158. Patented Apr. 19,1892.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS IMESON, LEIVIS D. TIBBETS, AND CHARLES L. F. KELLOGG, OF

SEATTLE, IVASHINGTON.

HANGER FOR ELECTRIC WIRES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 473,158, dated April 19, 1892.

Application filed February 2. 1892. Serial No. 420.059. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, THOMAS IMESON, LEWIS D. TIBBETS, and CHARLES L. F. KEL- LOGG, citizens of the United States of America, residing at Seattle, in the county of King and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hangers for Electric Wires, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Our invention relates to hangers for suspending trolley-wires for electric railways and for other like purposes.

Ourinvention consists of a wire-holder composed of two interlocking jaws, and a pivotplate upon which the jaws articulate, and a bolt and nutfor locking the jaws.

The object of our invention is to form a holder for electro-conductors or trolley-wires that will admit of ready adjustment, so the wire can be taken up when slack, and that will give a more secure and durable support than those now in use, and that will permit the wire to be readily connected and disconnected when constructing or repairing the line.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing ourimproveineut as it will appear in use. Fig. 2 is a side view showing the clamps or jaws of the hanger as they would appear if the binding-screws were removed and the jaws were to be separated. Fig. 3 is a section taken through the center of the hanger, looking at it from the end. Fig. 4 is a similar view with the bolt and pivotplate removed.

Our improved hanger is composed of the jaws A B, the jaw A having a slot d, into which fits the partf of the jaw B when the two jaws are interlocked by passing the part f through the slot cl, as shown in Figs. 1, 3, and

4. The pivotplate Z is inserted between them,

as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. The jaws are provided with holes b g, which register with a similar opening in the pivot-plate Z. The bolt j is then inserted and the nut kadjusted until the clamps e t have closed upon the wire m. The pivot-plate Zis made slightly larger at the bottom than at the top, that the jaws may clamp the wire at tightly before the sides of the pivot-plate arrest their movement. The bolt j and nut 10 are each provided with holes, through which the guy-wires pass in suspendin; the holder and trolley-wire from suitable supports.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. An electro-conductor or trolley-wire support consisting of the interlocking jaws A B, in combination with the pivot-plate Z, substantially as described.

2. In an electro-conductor or trolley-wire support, the combination of the interlocking jaws A Band plate Z with the boltj and nut k, substantially as described, and for the purpose specified.

3. In an electioconductor or trolley-wire support, two interlocking jaws, a plate upon which said jaws articulate, and means for causing said jaws to close upon and bind the wire, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we affiX oursignatures in presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS IMESON. LEWIS D. TIBBETS. CHARLES L. F. KELLOGG.

Witnesses:

R. H. LINDSAY, JOHN ARTHUR. 

